FEDERATED INVESTMENT SERIES FUNDS, INC.
UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF DIRECTORS
The undersigned, being all of the Directors of FEDERATED INVESTMENT SERIES FUNDS, INC. (the “Corporation”), hereby consent in accordance with Title 2-408, Subsection (c), Corporations and Associations, Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, and Article II, Section 14 of the Bylaws of the Corporation, to the adoption of the following resolution with the same effect as though they had been adopted at a meeting of the Directors of the Corporation:
| | RESOLVED, | that the Board hereby ratifies the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries of the Corporation signing in their place and stead, by power of attorney, the Registration Statement on Form N-14 relating to the proposed reorganization of Strategic Yield Portfolio, a portfolio of EquiTrust Series Fund, Inc. into Federated Bond Fund, a portfolio of the Corporation. |
WITNESS the due execution hereof this 14th day of April, 2011.
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| /S/ John F. Donahue | | | | /S/ Charles F. Mansfield, Jr. |
| John F. Donahue | | | | Charles F. Mansfield, Jr. |
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| /S/ Nicholas P. Constantakis | | | | /S/ R. James Nicholson |
| Nicholas P. Constantakis | | | | R. James Nicholson |
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| /S/ John F. Cunningham | | | | /S/ Thomas M. O’Neill |
| John F. Cunningham | | | | Thomas M. O’Neill |
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| /S/ J. Christopher Donahue | | | | /S/ John S. Walsh |
| J. Christopher Donahue | | | | John S. Walsh |
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| /S/ Maureen Lally-Green | | | | /S/ James F. Will |
| Maureen Lally-Green | | | | James F. Will |
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| /S/ Peter E. Madden | | | | |
| Peter E. Madden | | | | |
